How To Use Woolly In A Sentence

Pumas roam these passes, hunting vast areas for grey fox, upland geese or guanacos, the wild and woolly relative of the llama. Globe and Mail
Two shrubs here are desert broom and burro bush, while wildflowers include desert honeysuckle, with long, tubular, brick-red flowers, and woolly feverfew, with white or greenish flowers.
Saber-toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around the end of the last ice age, some 10,500 years ago.
The wildflowers, many of which bloom in May, include waterleaf, wild ginger, red trillium, Jack-in-the-pulpit, smooth and woolly blue violet, Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, and enchanter's nightshade.
One of these species, the woolly rhino, is clearly shown in the cave paintings of early humans.

Sponge the woolly bits with neat washing-up liquid, suggests a reader who says her father used to deal with greenfly on his roses in this way.
Up to this contact with Price, and indeed for some time after, I had regarded group selection as so ill-defined, so woolly in the uses made by its proponents, and so generally powerless against selection at the individual and genic levels, that the idea might as well be omitted from the toolkit of a working evolutionist. David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XIII: Hamilton Speaks
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Among the common wildflowers are one-flowered cinquefoil, woolly lousewort, alpine willowherb, three saxifrages, and an Indian paintbrush.
And this lamb needs ewe ... the adoption agency that's proud of its woolly ways.
He's got more cheekbone than Snoop, bloodshot and rheumy eyes, and he's wearing a scruffy black overcoat and woolly hat.
At night it became so cold that some of the men would sleep in woolly hats. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
I've already got some wellies, plus five woolly hats and upwards of a dozen pairs of hiking socks. Times, Sunday Times
Which is the nearest fossil relative of a chicken: pterodactyl, tyrannosaurus or woolly mammoth? Times, Sunday Times
Visibility is affected by the plankton levels and thermoclines that refract the light so that an otherwise perfect image can get a woolly edge.
So she decided to trek for help, wearing a parka coat, a woolly hat and hiking boots. Times, Sunday Times
Teeth from a woolly rhino were also found, with a reindeer antler and a deer bone that had been split to extract the marrow.
Soon after the melt unusual looking Ice Age mega-mammals like woolly mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed lions, and bison roamed the prairies. Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Our Wild Prairies
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
The Carrizoso plateau had been sacred ground, and it was unsupposable that it could ever be desecrated by the trampling hoofs and scissor noses of these woolly abominations. Heart's Desire
He wore a baseball cap, light-coloured jogging bottoms, trainers and a big woolly duffel-type coat with a hood.
In those days, the LibDems were (in the nicest possible way) regarded as slightly woolly and synonymous with wholemeal bread and unbleached linen.
In the chilly evenings, ridiculously seated on striped, collapsible beach chairs that blew over the second we got up, we cooked and ate outside wrapped in warm fleeces and woolly hats.
This sort of woolly headed thinking that believes only left-leaning intellectuals know what's best for us belongs back in the Dark Ages.
The only things she took with her were a gold bangle and a soft, pink woolly hat with a bow that she loved and wore constantly. Times, Sunday Times
It was like they had woolly jumpers on under their football shirts. Times, Sunday Times
Work with woolly tights and clogs for summer style now. Times, Sunday Times
WHAT is the best way to control woolly aphids on a crab apple tree? The Sun
The fungus grows rapidly and morphologically appears woolly or fluffy.
HOW do I get rid of woolly aphids covering my apple tree? The Sun
It's expressed in rather more woolly language but I accept what your Honour says.
To do so would be a mistake, for the novel gathers force and what appears to be a woolly, romantic start turns out to be necessary and crafted.
And they built the family food supply by downing wild, woolly beasts. Times, Sunday Times
Instead he spent the day huddled on an ancient tractor in a rainproof wax jacket and a green woolly Aran cap. Plow and Harrow
Well, it's not all about sweet little woolly creatures, you know.
It's startling, difficult and rewarding: sometimes knotty with reference and allusion, sometimes woolly and vague.
On your woolly criteria you would have to characterise the more than 50% of the population now said to oppose the war in Iraq as leftist.
He gave a rather woolly argument.
He doesn't bare his chest but covers it in a delightful woolly slipover. Times, Sunday Times
The thistle is armed with sharp prickles; the mallow is soft and woolly. Hymns in Prose for Children
We have the oldest model that he has in his collection, a woolly mammoth from the '40s, when he was just doing it in a shop in his garage," she says. Ray Harryhausen's models scale the heights of history
It looked like a disgruntled teenage jellyfish forced to wear a woolly hat knitted by an overprotective mother.
The 91-year-old from Stockport whiles away her spare time making woolly jumpers - for penguins.
The skull of a woolly mammoth found in a Wiltshire gravel pit will form the centrepiece of a new education centre.
The woolly rhinos and cave bears of Europe and Asia, the saber-toothed cats, the mastodons and giant sloths of North and South America - could some of these have made it through too?
His fond daydream shows that he is perfectly capable of the woollyheaded nonsense he decries in others.
The natives of Aru, on the other hand, are, Papuans, with black or sooty brown skims, woolly or frizzly hair, thick-ridged prominent noses, and rather slender limbs. The Malay Archipelago
When I released it this morning, it merely hunched on the ground beneath a woolly bush, its feathers fluffed up, and grey as the overcast day.
The other eucalypts can be broken up very broadly into two classes: those with rough permanent barks which are called stringybarks, boxes, and ironbarks: and those which want the best of both eucalypt worlds, the blackbutts and woollybutts, which have smooth upper branches and rough bark trunks.
Does it have a woolly, sheepy taste, or is it more goaty? Times, Sunday Times
Dramatically, single species emerge, like alpine ash, and the woollybutts that are signposts of regular winter snow.
The thick woolly tights make me think student. Times, Sunday Times
Thank goodness I was an ugly kid, not very alluring in my cast-off, woolly mammoth all-in-one.
The most exclusive hanko of all is made of woolly mammoth fossil. Times, Sunday Times
For healthy apple trees, plant some nasturtiums and mint around the trunks to deter woolly aphids.
tuque", or "toque", which in English-English suggests the lofty headgear worn by Queen Mary but is actually a little woolly hat. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
They were a picturesque crew with their broad felt hats, their flannel shirts of various colors, overlaid with an enamel of dust and perspiration, baked by the Dakota sun, their bright silk handkerchiefs knotted round the neck, their woolly "shaps," their great silver spurs, their loosely hanging cartridge-belts, their ominous revolvers. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
Astelia nervosa, with its swordshaped, woolly topped leaves, thrives under a silver birch. Times, Sunday Times
Why are they wearing woolly hats indoors? Times, Sunday Times
The hemlock woolly adelgid, an insect introduced from Asia in 1924, is killing eastern hemlocks throughout the eastern United States. Beyond Old Growth~ Chapter 5
Ha, none of that, you woolly-coated rogue, you," he cried, as he jumped aside to escape a kick that the bunch of equine mischief anticly snapped at him. How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories
Tip into a china or ceramic bowl and leave in a warm place (or wrapped in a woolly hat or blanket) overnight. Times, Sunday Times
Training initiatives can be woolly and their value hard to quantify, but it's easy to count. Times, Sunday Times
I wore my big, thick woolly tramping socks to work the other day.
I went equipped not only with two pairs of gloves, two jumpers, two pairs of trousers, thermals, fleece, woolly hat and ski jacket, but my iPod and the thickest book I could find.
Very shrewd observations are to be found in his reviews, for instance his indication, in reviewing La Touche's _Fragoletta_, of that common fault of ambitious novels, a sort of woolly and "ungraspable" looseness of construction and story, which constantly bewilders the reader as to what is going on. The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
It was full of woollybutts, a beautiful flowering gum tree whose name I am unable to type correctly at first attempt, and boabs or bottle trees, which look like someone's attached a pump to a normal tree and left it to inflate for an hour.
In my little corner of the world, the month of March usually swoops in like the proverbial lion then gently leaves like a woolly lamb.
Look out for woolly mammoth hair. The Sun
The leaf veins and leafstalks of those near the base of the plant are reddish and contain woolly hair.
So she decided to trek for help, wearing a parka coat, a woolly hat and hiking boots. Times, Sunday Times
Although the young are thickly covered with yellowish-brown woolly hair, the mountain anoa adults tend to have curly hair, while lowland anoa have straight hair or are hairless. 6 Wild Banteng
She wore big woolly parkas and sipped hot chocolate and coffee the whole way, but she couldn't stop shivering.
I was thinking about this short-lived notoriety as I walked the hills with their scattering of sheep when I became aware of another fact about these woolly creatures.
The skull of a woolly mammoth found in a Wiltshire gravel pit will form the centrepiece of a new education centre.
He had a black woolly hat and wore a khaki jacket with red scarf and gloves.
Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena.
For example, when hemlocks are completely infested with woolly adelgid, homeowners should get rid of the plant so they don't have to continually spray. Prime time to tame overgrown lawns
It knelt in the centre of its pen with three woolly, unshorn friends, contentedly chewing the cud.
[26] The Tibetans have three distinct kinds of goats: the _rabbu_, or large woolly animal, such as the one I had purchased; the _ratton_, or small goat; and the _chitbu_, a dwarf goat whose flesh is delicious eating. In the Forbidden Land
The skeptic became a woolly-minded idealist!
There are huge generalizations about how writers develop and age; and for all his moral clarity about totalitarian language, his own prescriptiveness is sometimes severe, sometimes woolly. Such, Such Was Eric Blair
To the more sceptical listener, some of his musings may seem a little woolly.
Labour has been vague and woolly with regard to the treaty settlement process up until now.
_Keeling's_ wife is worthy of a place in the author's long gallery of woolly-witted matrons; while in _Silverdale_ he has given a study of clerical futility and egotism almost savage in its detestability, a portrait at which one laughs and shudders together. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917
The lobster cocktail was plentiful but a touch cotton-woolly in texture, and for no visible reason arrived on a plate.
He had a woolly hat pulled down over his face. The Sun
She presided over fêtes and bazaars and kept our mild vicar and his ` woolly-minded " wife in order. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
Her face was still covered by the old woolly hood.
The seasonal molt of their woolly winter hair makes them look even more wretched.
Then under foot there were patches of woolly feather-grass and fragrant meadow-sweet, sheets of fescue, dog's-tail, creeping-bent, and meadow grass. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
Now we learn that wearing woolly jumpers is a crime against sheep. Times, Sunday Times
He tried to keep a low profile and wore a woolly hat in a bid to hide his wounds. The Sun
He was wearing a three-quarter length over-sized black coat, woolly black hat and scarf, which covered almost all of his face.
At one point, the entire cast put on white woolly jumpers and bleat like sheep, chewing grass. Times, Sunday Times
Leastways in New Zealand a jumper is a warm, often woolly garment worn over the torso by either gender to stay warm FODDER • by Paul Graham
The woolly mammoth is the ideal choice for the “new” republican party. Unemployment still at 10%. [pause] Yipe. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
Cushions ½ in. apart, composed of a little tuft of white woolly hair, a cluster of erect, rather long bristles, like a small shaving-brush, and all pointing upwards; spines usually only one in each cushion, and this is slender, deflexed, white, and from Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
The most exclusive hanko of all is made of woolly mammoth fossil. Times, Sunday Times
Standard Poodles are fine French hunting dogs and their woolly coats are admirably adapted for hunting in frigid French winters. Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
These include common waterbirds such as bitterns (cinnamon bittern [Ixobrychus cinnamomeus]), herons and egrets (Indian pond-heron [Ardeola grayii], Pacific reef-egret [Egretta sacra]), storks (woolly-necked stork [Ciconia episcopus]), ibis (black-headed ibis [Threskiornis melanocephalus]), ducks (spot-billed duck [Anas poecilorhyncha]), jacanas (pheasant-tailed jacana [Hydrophasianus chirurgus]), pratinoles (oriental pratincole [Glareola maldivarum]), and terns (black-bellied tern [Sterna acuticauda]). Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests
How do I deal with woolly aphids on my crab apple tree? Times, Sunday Times
Equally skilful is the progress of Waverley from his woolly-minded ignorance at the opening to the knowledge of the world he acquires from experience.
With sinking hearts, we made a beeline for Buchanan Street and spent two hours buying a chunky-knit cardigan, three pairs of 60 - denier woolly tights and a luminous-yellow stripy vest (half-price).
WHAT is the best way to control woolly aphids on a crab apple tree? The Sun
Warm woolly sheepskinned lined slippers sounded just the ticket.
The woolly mammoth was a smaller furrier beast, that lived in the north closer to the glaciers of the Ice Ages, from Alaska through Canada, and east to the Great Lakes and New England.
Each of the major fibers, as rendered in an ordinary plain-weave construction, has a unique, all but indescribable hand that is so familiar to us that we tend to use the fiber names archetypally and to speak of cottony, woolly, silky, and linenlike sensations. HOME COMFORTS
Round the guard-house a number of negro girls, with broad flat baskets on their heads, were selling fruit and cold water: they had decked their woolly hair, and the edges of their baskets, with garlands of the scarlet althaea; their light blue or white cloaks were thrown gracefully across their dusky shoulders, and white jackets, so that it was such a picture as the early Spaniards might have drawn of their Eldorado. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
That question sounds a bit woolly headed to me.
But over the course of our antenatal classes, given by a genial, no-nonsense midwife called Viv who says things like "Can someone pass me my woolly model of the womb?", New Statesman
Where doubt is talked about quite a bit in the Dharma is the sort of doubt that leaves one being vague and woolly, so you sort of think, oh, I can't meditate, or I could never be enlightened.
Her worn out old woolly overcoat finished off her appearance, thus she wasn't that surprised when a primly dressed young couple quickly averted their eyes from her as she crossed their front gate.
He shows us the white puppies with woolly coats whose job it is to protect the sheep from wolves and explains how they live outside with only the strongest surviving.
There's something faintly disconcerting about watching a former financial guru revert to the language of a woolly-headed students' union rally.
It's all a little vague and woolly at present, and nothing much will happen, as far as the consumer is concerned, for a year or two.
Mohr reported on dominant inheritance of woolly hair.
I wondered, as I body-popped beside him, what the DJ thought of this middle-aged bloke in a sensible woolly jumper and pressed trousers, pogoing like a demented rhino.
It would not be an exact replica but it would look and feel much like a woolly mammoth did. Times, Sunday Times
I try to persuade them that holistic medicine need not be, indeed must not be, woolly and imprecise.
If the woollybutts are also pruned early and the foster species thinned at mid rotation, interesting fat logs could be grown in medium rotations.
Among the most destructive enemies of the apple orchard are the codling moth, various species of mites, the woolly aphid, the apple maggot, the red-banded leaf roller, and scale insects.
It is a wild and woolly country which drew me in and one that continues to find new ways to embrace me.
He was wearing a dark woolly hat and a black top with a white band across the chest.
With not so much as a backward glance, they then rejoined their woolly friends. Times, Sunday Times
Fresh from the Siberian tundra, an 18,000-year-old frozen woolly mammoth is on display at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, Japan.
Here he is at 14, in geeky glasses and woolly jumper. The Sun
Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena.
My latest academic post here is another one of my attacks on the woolly thinking that is so characteristic of academic psychology.
Dartford Museum in Market Street, houses some remains of animals found in the area including woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses.
Dons' diaries refer to the "woolly-haired undergraduate with a black wife and piccaninnies". Alexander Crummell, Cambridge's first black graduate
It is all very well reading out these nice woolly, fluffy comments that the Minister has made, but the member knows that it is not fair.
Smaller mammals include short-tailed mole Talpa micrura, Tibetan water shrew Nectogale elegans, Himalayan water shrew Chimarrogale himalayica, bobak marmot Marmota bobak, Royle's pika Ochotona roylei, woolly hare Lepus oiostolus, rat Rattus sp. and house mouse Mus musculus. Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal
The letter " Speed humps damage cars " is plain woolly thinking.
None has yet dared to give him a woolly hat as a present. Times, Sunday Times
All it lacks is a woolly jumper. Times, Sunday Times
Less conspicuous species are woolly plantain, wild four-o'clock, yellow stargrass, and false toadflax.
I think he's woolly-minded.
To do so would be a mistake, for the novel gathers force and what appears to be a woolly, romantic start turns out to be necessary and crafted.
Your chart is family-minded but not in woolly ways, and you are able to decide a shared direction. The Sun
These are compact little bundles, at first of a dull yellow colour, until presently the florets fall off and leave the white woolly pappus of the seeds collected together, somewhat resembling the hoary hairs of age. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Our textbooks were full of woolly mammals and cave men from the northern hemisphere but we knew very, very little of how the great Australian environment had responded to those events of the last Ice Age.
The wind whistled through the holes in my woolly hat, rather defying the point of wearing it in the first place.
Lanate - atus: woolly: covered with dense, fine, long hairs, so distinct that they may be separated. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
She has put away her thermals, waterproofs and woolly hat to don a smart black suit, white shirt, black cravat, dark tights and low-heeled shoes as the Mayor's Attendant.
Leave the thermals at home, forget the woolly hat and the three pairs of socks, and instead, don stylish sunglasses and a shirt.
Pros in the area actually prefer slightly off-color water, Woolly said, especially for trout, but sometimes have trouble finding it when wind is light on consecutive days.
Lions encounter woolly mammoths, a jaguar attacks a bone-plated glyptodont, and a sabre-toothed cat comes off somewhat worse for wear following a confrontation with a humble skunk.
the dog's woolly shag
Brenden wants a two-year moratorium on relocating bison until state officials write a management plan for what he calls "woolly tanks" that can wreak havoc on crops and land. The Seattle Times
This is yet another case of dippy woolly-headed liberal thinking.
None has yet dared to give him a woolly hat as a present. Times, Sunday Times
The Indian jujube has leaves that are woolly beneath instead of smooth like the Chinese jujube.
It's a fair point, but the potential solutions he offers are woolly and unspecific. Times, Sunday Times
Sheep have a thick woolly coat, usually live in groups as flocks, and are known for their timidity.
The balsam woolly adelgid, which sucks the sap from Fraser firs, has no natural predators here, either. Aliens Invade America!
woolly lambs
Tolstoy was often a rather wild thinker, a village explainer, an obtuse casuist; he filled his artistic works with his own woolly-minded theorizing. Jim Windolf: A Q&A with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Translator Richard Pevear: Jim Windolf
I don't know what you're like when you haven't had a day off in three weeks but I get a bit woolly headed and unable to commit to basic chores.
He proposed that the woolly mammoths died during the Flood by a quick freeze.
So she decided to trek for help, wearing a parka coat, a woolly hat and hiking boots. Times, Sunday Times
In September obtain leaves of sweet-pea, apple, rose bush, maple, oak, turnip, etc., on which the insects are feeding; also provide specimens of woolly aphides on the bark of apple trees or stems of goldenrod or alder. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
Wear woolly socks and put on a jersey. Times, Sunday Times
Woolly mammoths, which are now extinct, lived from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene period from about 120,000 to 4,000 years ago.
If you'd rather look fresh as a daffodil, throw away your muffler, shake off the woolly hat and try these six simple, sexy looks.
Eucalypt open forests extend across most of the landscape, typically dominated by Darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta) and Darwin woollybutt (E. miniata) growing up to 20 meters (m) tall. Arnhem Land tropical savanna
The lobster cocktail was plentiful but a touch cotton-woolly in texture, and for no visible reason arrived on a plate.
Squatting on all fours like some great beast of the forest, Erik shook his mane of wild auburn hair, scratched his woolly beard, and flared his nostrils as he took heavy breaths of cool air.
NGC 3521, which is 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, is called a flocculent spiral galaxy because of the patchy, woolly look of its spiral arms. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
The idea of group selection has been much criticized as woolly thinking in the past.
The wildflowers, many of which bloom in May, include waterleaf, wild ginger, red trillium, Jack-in-the-pulpit, smooth and woolly blue violet, Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, and enchanter's nightshade.
When coupled with the appropriate sign, we knew exactly what she wanted - a snack, or to cuddle with her woolly stuffed animal.
My field work has involved observations of the dietary behavior of various species of howler monkeys, spider monkeys, capuchins and tamarins as well as woolly spider monkeys.
The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.
THE woolly mammoth was driven to extinction by warmer weather, new research suggests. The Sun
Markus has wrapped up warmly in a woolly hat.
Male lions develop thick woolly manes on the neck and shoulders, signifying maturity.
It has orange eyes and woolly, water-resistant fur (a useful trait in a rainforest), which is colored dark brown to black except for two large, white patches on the animal's back.
Plants with leathery leaves, or ones that have evolved to cope with sun and drought, with grey, woolly leaves or small leaf surfaces, seem to cope best with the salty conditions.
If we start with what might be called "zoological" races or strains differing, for instance, in their hair (woolly-haired Africans, straight-haired The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
Someone had also covered her in warm woolly blankets, effectively keeping out the night's chill.
You strip down to your shorts and don woolly garments to protect your extremities. Times, Sunday Times
Thus suitably armed and accoutered, the Clemens brothers set out for the wild and woolly West. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
We had a huge infestation of yellow woollybear caterpillars and green clover worm moths and am finding some fall armyworm moths.
Hundreds of leapfrogging woolly bundles later, you will be using your pillow as a punchbag. The Sun
When bar staff told him to remove his woolly hat, he politely explained why he would not be comfortable without it. The Sun
An aromatic woolly plant native to Crete, formerly believed to have magical powers.
Woolly mammoths are perhaps the best known mammals of the Ice Age.
And this lamb needs ewe ... the adoption agency that's proud of its woolly ways.
For day, you can layer it with knits and ribbed grey woolly tights - a key trend for legs this winter. Times, Sunday Times
It is woolly-headed to suppose that Liverpool, in debilitating form, could suddenly be converted to flamboyance and virtuosity.
Madame Cholet, a kindly countrywoman who lived in the neighbouring house, knitted her woolly socks to keep her feet warm during pruning.
Some of the alders held overwintering white patches of woolly aphids on their gray stems.
Let a young maid pick of rosemary two roots; of monk's-hood --" A line had been drawn through this last word, and another word written above it; but the ink was so faded, the page so woolly and thin with use, that it was impossible to decipher the correction; perhaps it was "mother-wort," an herb Philly did not know; or it might be "mandrake"? The Voice
Part sandal, part clog, wear these with ribbed woolly tights. Times, Sunday Times
This landscape of jagged mountains, desert playas, and massive canyons has yielded woolly-mammoth skeletons and still bears the wagon ruts and axle-grease graffiti of the pioneers.
Where Sinclair had been cool-headed in response, Turner had dithered, where Sinclair had been ruthless, he had been woolly. THE SCAR
Hard to beat a little muddler minnows and woolly buggers. I will be fly fishing fishing for trout on a small stream in northern ny this weekend.
We visited in September during the Wibabiya season, when singing rings through the sun-drenched stringybark, woollybutt and bloodwood forests.
But I need a hottie and a pair of woolly socks.

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